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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Caribou vulnerability (USN-4958-1)

info Nessus Plugin ID 149649

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4958-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that the Caribou onscreen keyboard could be made to crash when given certain input values. An attacker could use this to bypass screen-locking applications that support using Caribou as an input mechanism.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4958-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Info

ID: 149649

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4958-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/18/2021

Updated: 8/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:caribou-antler, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcaribou-gtk3-module, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcaribou-gtk-module, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:caribou, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcaribou-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcaribou0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gir1.2-caribou-1.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libcaribou-common

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2021

Reference Information

USN: 4958-1